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                  Jokes 
                  Alternative 
                    Dictionary 
                     
                  
                     
                      | a | 
                      Anally: 
                        Occurring yearly  
                        Anasthesia: A Russian princess you studied 
                        in school  
                        Ankle: Opposite of aunty  
                        Anthrax: Trail made by ants  
                        Antibodies: Things uncles are familiar 
                        with  
                        Aquadextrous: Possessing the ability 
                        to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. 
                         
                        Asthma: What you do if dad says no  | 
                     
                     
                      | b | 
                      Bachelor: 
                        A guy who has avoided the opportunity to make some woman 
                        miserable  
                        Barium: What doctors do when treatment 
                        fails  
                        Beepilepsy: The brief siezure people 
                        sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially 
                        in vibrator mode. Characterised by physical spasms, goofy 
                        facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence. 
                         
                        Blood Count: Dracula  
                        Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of 
                        happiness behind her | 
                     
                     
                      | c | 
                      Cannibal: 
                        Someone who is fed up with people  
                        Chicken: The only animals you eat before 
                        they are born and after they are dead.  
                        Committee: A body that keeps minutes 
                        and wastes hours.  
                        Compromise: An amiable arrangement between 
                        husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her 
                        own  
                        Cystogram: A telegram to your sister 
                         
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                      | d | 
                      Diplomat: 
                        A man who can convince his wife she would look fat in 
                        a fur coat.  
                        Disconfect: To sterilize the piece of 
                        candy you dropped on the floor by blowing on it, assuming 
                        this will somehow 'remove' all the germs.  
                        Disk Crash: A typical computer response 
                        to any critical deadline  
                        Dorito Syndrome: Feelings of emptiness 
                        and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances 
                        that lack nutritional content. "I just spent six 
                        hours surfing the Web, and now I've got a bad case of 
                        Dorito Syndrome."  
                        Dump: The place all your former hobbies wind up soon after 
                        you install games on your computer. | 
                     
                     
                      | e | 
                      Egosurfing: 
                        Scanning the net, databases, print media, or research 
                        papers looking for the mention of your name.  
                        Elbonics: The actions of two people maneuvering 
                        for one armrest in a movie theater  
                        Expansion Unit: The new room you have 
                        to build on to your home to house your computer and all 
                        its peripherals. | 
                     
                     
                      | f | 
                      File: 
                        What a secretary can now do to her nails six and a half 
                        hours a day, now that the computer does her day's work 
                        in 30 minutes.  
                        Flink: The act of turning on your car's 
                        turn signal just long enough for it to blink for half 
                        a second.  
                        Floppy: The condition of a constant computer 
                        user's stomach due to lack of exercise and a steady diet 
                        of junk food. | 
                     
                   
                     
                   
                  The Advantages 
                    of Being A Woman 
                  You can 
                    get rid of leg hair without pretending that you do a lot of 
                    cycling/swimming or any other sport that would require aerodynamic 
                    legs.  
                    You absently hum tunes from musicals without anyone being 
                    suspect of your sexuality.  
                    Should you wake up looking like something the cat dragged 
                    in, you can fix it with cosmetics.  
                    You can have partners that are years younger than you without 
                    being called dirty old perverts.  
                    You can scare male bosses with mysterious gynaecological disorder 
                    excuses.  
                    Your boyfriend's clothes make you look elfin and gorgeous. 
                    They look like complete dorks in your clothes.  
                    You have total control over our eyebrows.  
                    It's cool to be a daddy's girl. It's sad to be a mommy's boy. 
                     
                    You can cry to get out of speeding fines.  
                    The thrill of surprising people by being good at darts... 
                    and pool... and football.  
                    You live longer, so you can be cantankerous old biddies wearing 
                    inappropriate clothes and shouting at strangers... men die 
                    earlier so you get to cash in on the life insurance.  
                    You know that games are fun, but don't believe there's a direct 
                    correlation between the size of our scores and the size of 
                    your... womanhood.  
                    Taxis stop for you.  
                    You get drunk quicker and cheaper.  
                    You have no desire to arrange your possessions in alphabetical 
                    order. Ever.  
                    You've never fancied a cartoon character or the central figure 
                    in a computer game.  
                    It does not enhance your social standing to understand the 
                    inner workings of a 'ruck' (or any other football thing). 
                    But you look incredibly cool if you do. 
                     
                  Source: 
                    The Internet 
                    
                        
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                    thedailystar.net 2004 
                  
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